Word: cinemogul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Methodist known as "Holy Joe," used to tell him: "When I take a thing to prayer, I always succeed." Son J. Arthur Rank has never forgotten what his father taught. When Rank first went into moviemaking in 1934, it was to make religious shorts. More recently, Britain's Cinemogul Rank has made his name world-famed with productions of another sort, such as Henry V, Brief Encounter, Hamlet. But he has never stopped making religious shorts...
...British Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank was probably wishing that his gifted director, David (Brief Encounter) Lean, had not been quite so conscientious in copying Dickens and his illustrator, George Cruikshank. Director Lean's Great Expectations was hailed wherever it was shown as a superbly Dickensian cinema (TIME, May 26, 1947). In Fagin's case, Lean actually followed Cruikshank more closely than Dickens. The film never calls Fagin a Jew (Dickens rarely called him anything else), but he is faithfully villainous and repulsive-and unmistakably...
...deal gave Hughes a $16,000,000 stake in Hollywood, biggest of any cinemogul. In addition to buying control of RKO, he has spent about $2,400,000 for his completed but unreleased picture, Mad Wednesday, another $3,000,000 for Vendetta, still unfinished. And he still has $1,750,000 tied up in The Outlaw. With RKO's chain of 124 houses, Hughes will now have an outlet for his movies, at least until the antitrust suit against moviemakers is settled...
From such stuff, Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank makes a right fat slice of his film earnings; for doing it, Maggie Lockwood makes about ?30,000 a year-probably top money among British stars. Says she (with a blunt dig at stage-struck British stars who think they're slumming when they make pictures): "I am not one of those who is always dissatisfied with what she is doing...
...York Daily News's up & coming Station WPIX (to open June 15) solved its cinema problem for a year or so with a shrewd buy. For $130,000 the News picked up 24 of British Cinemogul Sir Alexander Korda's best old films, including such past hits as The Scarlet Pimpernel and Lady Hamilton...